What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sr. Staff Software Engineer, QA position at Zscaler?
Company Description
Zscaler (NASDAQ: ZS) accelerates digital transformation so that customers can be more agile, efficient, resilient, and secure. The Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange is the company’s cloud-native platform that protects thousands of customers from cyberattacks and data loss by securely connecting users, devices, and applications in any location.
With more than 10 years of experience developing, operating, and scaling the cloud, Zscaler serves thousands of enterprise customers around the world, including 450 of the Forbes Global 2000 organizations. In addition to protecting customers from damaging threats, such as ransomware and data exfiltration, it helps them slash costs, reduce complexity, and improve the user experience by eliminating stacks of latency-creating gateway appliances.
Zscaler was founded in 2007 with a mission to make the cloud a safe place to do business and a more enjoyable experience for enterprise users. Zscaler’s purpose-built security platform puts a company’s defenses and controls where the connections occur—the internet—so that every connection is fast and secure, no matter how or where users connect or where their applications and workloads reside.
Job Description
- Design, Development & Maintenance of Automation Frameworks using programming languages like Python.
- Development of Test Automation scripts leveraging frameworks like Pytest.
- Setting up complex test environments that consist of multiple OS platforms, routers, firewalls and switches for System and Solution testing.
- Coordinate with the internal team to efficiently and effectively execute cloud deployment changes, contribute to engineering efforts to solve complex engineering problems in testing & tools.
- Debugging and troubleshooting customer issues within Zscaler software running on Windows , Mac OSX , IOS and Android platforms.
- Testing Application Servers supporting various protocols, e.g. HTTP, FTP, DNS, SSL, TCP/IP, IPSEC, GRE etc.
Qualifications
- 10 years of hands-on QA testing experience in the security space
- In-depth knowledge of Proxy, Firewalls, Routers, IDS, IPS, Data protection, encryption solutions and authentication systems (LDAP, SAML, etc.)
- Knowledge of Enterprise/Service Provider Network Security Deployments
- Proficient in Internet and Security protocols especially TCP/IP, IPv4/IPv6, HTTP/HTTPS, SSL/TLS, and Key Management
- Scripting experience; TCL, Expect, Python
- In-depth knowledge of linux
- Experience with linux based tools and traffic generations tool like Ixia, spirent
- Experience must include 5 years conducting performance and load testing on enterprise-scale firewalls, HTTP/HTTPS
Additional Information
What You Can Expect From Us:
- An environment where you will be working on cutting edge technologies and architectures
- A fun, passionate and collaborative workplace
- Competitive salary and benefits, including equity
Why Zscaler?
People who excel at Zscaler are smart, motivated and share our values. Ask yourself: Do you want to team with the best talent in the industry? Do you want to work on disruptive technology? Do you thrive in a fluid work environment? Do you appreciate a company culture that enables individual and group success and celebrates achievement? If you said yes, we’d love to talk to you about joining our award-winning team.
Additional information about Zscaler (NASDAQ: ZS ) is available at https://www.zscaler.com.
Zscaler is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
